Coffin



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TAYLOR E. DANIELS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.'

COFFIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,537, dated July 25,1882. Application med Api 2n, 1881. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TAYLOR E. DANIELS, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Coflins; and I hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a perspective view of acoffin provided with my improvement, and having a portion of the sidebroken away to show the same; Fig. 2, a top view of my improvement apartfrom the coffin; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the coffin representedin Fig. l, and Fig. 4 a detail view.

My present invention relates to an improvement upon the invention -setforth in Letters Patent of the United States No. 180,207, granted to meJuly 5, 1876, and which constituted an improvement in the manufacture ofburialcases of the class which are molded from certain compounds in aplastic condition and then allowed to harden. y

The various compounds employed for the purpose are commonly known asmarble cement,7 artiticial marble,77 and other designations oflikeimport, andthese are molded over a metal skeleton or frame of therequired form.

One form of frame suggested in my patent above cited is of sheet-iron,and in the Walls of this frame diamondshaped openings are formed,through which the plastic material passes, thus causing it to take afirm holdupon the frame. n

All compounds employed for the purpose of forming artificial marble areextremely brittle. It is this property that renders the internal framenecessary; and sheet metal is preferable to cast metal for the purpose,for the reason that it is thinner, and hence lighter, which is animportant consideration.

Sheet-metal frames constructed as above described add greatly to thestrength of the cofns; but they have the defect of not bein g sut'-iciently stiff to prevent cracking of the cement when the coffin or lid-is subjected to a sudden transverse strain.

My present object is to overcome this defect without adding materiallyto the weight of the coffin.

In the drawings, A is the coffin, B the lid, and C D the embedded frame,of corrugated sheet metal, provided with perforations t1, pret'- erablyin 'the form of longitudinal slots, as shown.

The corners of the coffin being attened, as shown at u, I employ theseparate slotted and corrugated plates D for these portions, and providethem with lateral projections t, which, when the parts are placed inposition as represented in Fig. 2, are bentthrough holes formed in theedges of the side and end plates. A

By means of my present improvement all the parts are obviously made muchstronger than heretofore, thus greatly increasing the safety of handlingand shipping coffins of this description, and thus removing the chiefobjection that has hitherto been urged against them.

Of course my improvement may be applied, ot'ten with equal advantage, tocotins molded from substances other than artificial marble.

What I claim as new, andl desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the walls of a molded coffin, the embed ded framecomprising the c orrugated and perforated side and end plates, C, andthe corrugated and perforated cornerplates D,said corner-plates havinglateral projections t, adapted to hook through hol'es in the said sideand end plates, substantially as described.

TAYLOR E. DANIELS.

